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Old 06-28-2012, 07:36 PM   #16
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Liked the bee part better.
Guy never had to rely on an M-16.
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Old 06-28-2012, 08:04 PM   #17
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Bees are great. We need them. Dana, that is so cool about your dad. I would love to learn to keep bees.
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Old 06-28-2012, 10:27 PM   #18
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Old 06-28-2012, 10:54 PM   #19
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Old 06-28-2012, 10:55 PM   #20
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Shoulda been bee-mail...... bmail, b-mail.......
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Old 06-28-2012, 10:57 PM   #21
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Old 06-28-2012, 11:03 PM   #22
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no.

i don't trust you.
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Old 06-29-2012, 02:26 AM   #23
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Say what? Bees putting dead insect bodies in for their larva to eat as they develop? Isn't there a kind of wasp that does that ... but I thought bees fed the larvae. Isn't that what the whole royal jelly thing is about, that the larva that gets royal jelly becomes a queen?

Or am I completely out to lunch here?

Whether or not I'm out to lunch, those hives/structures are very very cool.
You're not out to lunch - you're just thinking of the more popular communal bee's, like the Honey bee's, or some Bumblebee's, which make hives.

These are for solitary bee's. Although they're very close to each other here, they work independently. They don't put an insect in there usually, it's a small bit of food, the young bee - to - be, and a seal to try and keep the young from being predated upon.

One wasp that stings and stuns an insect, and implants it with it's young, is the Jeweled Wasp. After sealing up the below ground incubation chamber where it has dragged/coerced the insect to walk, the insect is eaten by the larvae of the wasp. It's not the only wasp to do this, either.

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Old 06-29-2012, 07:04 AM   #24
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Thanks for that, Adak, I was wondering the same things as Orthodoc. But they look like bees.
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Old 06-29-2012, 07:08 AM   #25
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Charlene : (As she reads an article) I can't believe this. Did you see this? Droves of vicious killer bees are headed toward the United States. They're from South America and are expected to arrive in three to four years. That is terrible. Can you imagine? I'll bet our bees are scared to death.

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Old 06-29-2012, 09:23 AM   #26
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Great find CaliMama! Imma add this to the list of things I'll never get done but oughta.
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Old 06-29-2012, 11:01 AM   #27
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no.

i don't trust you.
No, it's really a great 80's song by a local Burlington Vt, band. No Rick Roll. Swear. The song is called "Killer Bee Bop" by Zoot Wilson.
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Old 06-29-2012, 12:18 PM   #28
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Thanks for that, Adak, I was wondering the same things as Orthodoc. But they look like bees.
Those ARE bee's. But they are solitary, not hive bee's like you're used to hearing about.

And they don't carry up insects to implant their larva inside - that's what parasitic wasps do, (but they make the victim's walk, not carry them).

One such wasp is the Jewel wasp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2XMyxAs5o

But those are not found in these Bee Hotels. The tenants there are all solitary species of bee's (hopefully), not wasps.
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Old 06-29-2012, 09:07 PM   #29
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Thanks, Adak! I hadn't known about solitary bees; I was only aware of the communal type. If/when I get my rural property, I'm going to build one of those bee hotels.
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Old 06-29-2012, 11:37 PM   #30
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Adak, that's so informative, I'm going to forgive your apostrophe abuse.
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